Thursday, 25 September 2014

Preliminary story ideas

The main theme for the story idea I had is comedy starring the character of a Peregrine Falcon living in London. I want to make it a comedy because I feel that comedy is what I'm best at. I chose the Falcon as a main character because they're a native Bird of Prey to big cities, and often nest in an around the big office blocks and high-rise apartments dotted around London.
  • The story is based around a Falcon who is suffering from extreme hunger
  • He lands on a building in London, tired and angry from missing another day's catch, and sees something in the building opposite him that kicks him back in gear
  • He wants to eat the thing in that building and wants to eat it very badly
  • The entire film consists of visual gags displaying the extent that this falcon is willing to go to in order to get his food and get inside the building where the food is.
I'm unsure about the ending, but here are a few ideas I came up with following the session with Pooja:

  • The Falcon is targeting a pet bird belonging to the CEO of some London based company. In the end, he manages to eat the bird, but immediately following this, the CEO comes in and sees the mess. Two endings are possible here:
  1. The CEO sees the Falcon and decides that it's a better pet bird than his previous pet, so the Falcon becomes the pet bird instead.
  2. The CEO (who's lunch was delivered to some no-name peon in his company by accident. This can be shown at an earlier point in the film during or between the visual gags) gets angry and orders security to do something about the Falcon that just ate his pet bird, so they kill two birds with one stone (huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhhu) by serving the Falcon as the CEO's lunch.

Edit: I said during the presentation that I wanted to make the humour quite dark, but that was honestly just a spur-of-the-moment thing. Looking back on it, I feel like it would be better to stick to standard comedy and not worry about whether or not I make it 'dark n' edgy'.


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